I’m traveling three weeks out of the rest of the year. Otherwise I’d be screwed :-D

Pro Tip: If you're a health insurance rep, don't tell a doctor that HIPAA prevents you from telling her who her own doctor is.

It will not go well for you.

TBF, "media" mostly means influencers these days, but maybe they decided to go ahead and open the doors :-D (Or soft open or whatever.)

Must be a VIP/media day. Official grand opening is Friday, IIRC.

(This isn’t to say that there isn’t often a huge difference between dayboat and distro, depending on the product. Just that A) distance from coastline is usually meaningless for distro, and B) waaaaaaaaaay fewer places get dayboat stuff than people think.)

Or, as I am a little too fond of saying, Le Bernardin isn’t pulling their uni out of the Hudson.

It’s the same everywhere. Even on the coasts, very few places are getting dayboat seafood, and then, only a select few local items. Everywhere in the country, you can get the same stuff from the same distro channels in the same timeframe. It’a just a question of how expensive it is.

(Making no comment as to whether or not this is a good baseball move. Shōta is one of my all-time favorite Cubs. Hoping for a QO and acceptance.)

Oh FFS.

Yes, but since the update I’ve been getting it while working out with headphones.

I’m not saying my phone is *wrong*… just that it’s a nag.

I take it back. That’s not entirely true. At the end of the day, good is good, doesn’t matter how you got there. But make food that’s shitty *and* displays a lack of respect for the culture and craft, and you deserve to be destroyed.

(Doesn’t necessarily mean they’re *good*. Japan, like every other country on earth, is filled with plenty of people have terrible taste in food. But it’s one thing to say you think something is bad, and another to say or imply that it is illegitimate.)

I am of the opinion that the what is less important than the how. Or put another way, know the rules before you try to break them. I respect anyone who gets creative with a craft they’ve mastered, hit or miss. I have no patience for those who sling bullshit without taking the time to learn first.

Given what I typically listen to, this is much more plausible.

Bret only gets lobster rolls when he visits the California coast, where the lobster is fresh.